>> your site is still broken in FF,

You really don't get it do you?  My site is, <b>and will remain</b>,
"broken in FF" for all of the forseeable future.  Because I really do
not care of FireFox users can see it or not.  FF users are so tiny a
portion of my potential audience that their loss would not even be
noticed. There's relatively little in that market that I'm interested
in.

If I were to "prioritize my tasks", making my site FF friendly would
be, oh... at the bottom of the list.

>>or [you] have a hunch that the rest of the world might not use
>> or accept an open source project used mainly by developers
>> whom couldn't give two shyts about a bug icon for the app,


Uhhhhm.  I think I already said that.  But thank you for making my
point, for me, again.



As for "broken", what you are refereing to is the facr that the
buttons at the top don't work in FF.  That's because of a particular
coding choice that I deliberately made.  IE quirks mode will let you
wrap an entire table cell inside an anchor, thuse making the entire
cell a hot spot, not just the text inside that cell.

In other words, you can do this in IE and it works ( < = [, etc ):

[a href="a.html"] [TD style="background:url(images/button.png);"]
This is a Link  [/TD] [/a]

In ie, clicking ANYWHERE in the entire cell will trigger the link.

When I absolutely must support other browsers (I first discovered the
prob with Safari), I will wrap the inner text inside another anchor
with the same href.  Ugly, but it works when I just HAVE to support
non-ie browsers.



>> to me it seems you would rather use this discussion
>> group more as your personal soap box, so that you
>> can point your finger at people and devs here, while
>> you rant about your superior coding abilities.


Hey, I didn't bring it up.  I made a suggestion.  That's all.  If they
didn't like my suggestion fine.  Say "thanks, we'll keep your number
on file.  Call you when we know something..."  Say nothing.  Ignore
me.  Hell, come right out and say "We actually like the logo just the
way it is and we have no intention of changing it to suit you or
anyone else."  Hell, I'd respect a guy who came back atcha like that!

But they/he didn't.  The first thing he did was basically call me a
liar.  "I think it looks like a roach."  "It looks nothing like a
roach."  "So, now you are telling me what I think?"  That ain't gonna
end well.

Then I repeat for emphasis.  "But really, when I look at it I see a
roach. "

Thenthey/he get's smarmy and sarcastic.

I'm thinkin', "Damn this is customer service is some good stuff.  I
gotta get me some of that."

Then all the rest of you jump in.  Tim with "so what your'e saying...
and putting words in my mouth., and kara with an outright "You're an
idiot!"

Then Tripp starts talking about his dick and asking me questions about
mine (is this a public restroom, or what?)....

Again, like I said.  The zealot/snobish mentality comes out and it's
off to the race.



>> news flash, if FF doesn't matter so much, why are you
>> using a FF plugin, and further more why are you posting
>> on a dev group for this said FF plugin...?? This plugin is
>> designed for web app devs whom use FF, not the
>> mainstream end user, explain y it matters?

It's very, very simple.  ONE of the projects I'm working on right now
is a public facing website and it DOES need to be standards compliant
and MUST support Firefox.  As well as Opera, NS, early MOZ, IE, Gecko
and whatever the hell else is out there in the open source "jungle."
Furthermore, I LOVE working in FF because it is a vastly superior
browser than IE, and has all these great plug ins LIKE FIREBUG!

But when a corporate Intranet application's gotta be done fast, and
it's gotta be rock solid reliable.... Sorry.  No browser warriors
allowed.  It's IE all the way.



"I program in python.  Me in perl.  I'm a GNU fan... Dont forget
Gecko.....  Hey, I prefer Hippo!  That and Rhinocerous is a pretty
cool tool, too..."

Seriously, folks.  If you want to get market penetration (shut up,
Tripp.  Don't even go there...;-) a little attention to naming
convention might be helpful.  I'm not gonna rush out and buy "easy
peasy" to trust my business data to.  I'm not sure how much trust I
should put in a product whose author thought a suitable animal to
describe it was a lizzard.










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